At 9:26 AM -0700 10/20/2010, Fluxstringer wrote:
Lion ?
Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Leopard, Snow Leopard ... all cats
known for their sleek stealthy attack speed.
Tiger ... a more full featured cat, but still a good hunter.
Lion ... hum. Notice that the pic Apple has chosen is the male - the
fatter one that lays around on the veldt waiting for the females to
do hunting.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
At 1:55 PM -0500 10/20/2010, Kris Tilford wrote:
I went to the Apple site to watch the streaming video of the
presentation and was rudely greeted with this:
"Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or
Safari on iOS 3 or later."
Typical Apple marketing stupidity. sigh.
At 6:03 PM -0500 10/20/2010, Eric Herbert wrote:
I have to say, I think Apple's finally lost it. Trying to turn the
operating system into an iPad? Someone save us. I like their OS as
is, and being an Intel user, I do like Snow Leopard. That said, I
think Lion is going to blow if they keep up all this "Fisher Price"
nonsense. It seems that Apple forgets that some people actually use
their computer for more than consumer tasks!
iOS is a stripped down Snow Leopard with a new GUI. It makes sense
that those features should be rolled back into the original OS.
Then, when the processors in the smaller devices catch up, they'll be
able to run the full OS. And by the same token, as the giant *high
resolution* touch screens become available, the desktops running the
full OS will need that support.
The loss of PPC support is tragic since there are so many PPC
machines in use still (at my work there's only 1 Intel Mac in the
whole building, the other 7 are all G4 machines) and they're all
still perfectly functional. My main desktop is still a G5 DP and
it's still as usable as anything else I have.
Yea. But there is no business case (aka profit) for Apple to
continue to support that old platform.
At 8:38 PM -0400 10/20/2010, admin wrote:
That simple computer mouse (albeit with ever greater optical DPI,
etc and much ingenuity behind it's apparent simplicity) is one of
the greatest proprioceptive and information processing means ever
devised by the mind of man. It has to be thousands of times more
precise-and even quicker-than flashing our finger in front of our
face to work with a computer.
For most people, a track pad and gestures is more than ample. Don't
think for a moment that that means that Apple will drop support for
other pointing devices! The pro market still uses high-res pads and
track balls and mice and such - and always will.
Having the multi-touch capabilities in OS X tho.... wow. There are
some great things that can be done! Air gestures, optic (eye)
targeting for heads-up displays, etc. Great potential, once you have
the primitive support built-in!
FWIW,
- Dan.
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